The Flash
word of advice : SPOILERS ForThe Flash # 51
The Flash # 51serves as a tribute to the character reference of Wally West and his special position in the DC Comics multiverse . Despite having been largely sidelined over the retiring decennium , in particular in media apart from comic books , there is a generation of superhero buff for whom Wally West has always beenThe Flash . It ’s a fact that author Joshua Williamson recognize in the conclusion of theFlash Warevent , as writer Iris West pondered the aftermath of the recent upshot and her nephew ’s unusual liveliness .
Wally expend most ofThe Flash # 51attempting to build up the speed needed to break out through reality again . This proves a futile motion , yield that his natural action have destroy the connection between The Speed Force and Hypertime - the nigh - space nexus between reality speedsters once used to travel in time . As he does so , Iris West reflects upon Wally ’s life and the meter now bury in the world of Earth Prime , where Wally West was the one and only Flash .
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When DC Comics determine to fine-tune the new world withDC Comics Rebirth , Wally West became the cardinal character of a saga that revealed just how disadvantageously external force had begin to spay the timeline of the Multiverse . Wally ’s story of how he had been trapped in The Speed Force for several years only to come forth into a world in which he never exist has inform much of the preceding two years of stories in bothThe FlashandTitans .
This culminate inFlash War , where Wally learned that he had two children who were also immobilize outside of reality and his effort to collapse them free resulted incataclysmic change to the cosmic ordering .
" He looks up to Barry , " Iris writes . " Barry was his Flash . But for a whole generation , even if they ’ve now forgotten , he was theirs . " This is a neat bit of metatextual commentary on the part of Joshua Williamson , draw a parallel of latitude to Wally ’s status in the real world . Thanks to his appearance in theJustice Leaguemovie and the television series on The CW , Barry Allen is now The Flash in the minds of most superhero fans .
The first young adult male to bear the Kid Flash title , Wally West also became the first adolescent crony in superhero story to take up his mentor ’s claim and costume following the apparent decease of Barry Allen inCrisis on Infinite Earths . For over two decades , until Barry Allen ’s resurrection in the mini - seriesFinal Crisis , Wally West was the one and only Fastest Man Alive .
That exchange in the wake ofThe New 52reboot of the DC Comics Multiverse , which reset the timeline to an earliest decimal point where Barry Allen had not yet sacrificed himself to save the macrocosm . The fresh 52inspired many complaint from reader , honcho among them that DC Comics had abandoned the sense of legacy that made it unique , with most of the first generation of teen sidekicks no longer existing in the fresh realism .
Thankfully , whatever may have happened to cause Wally to be forget in our world , Barry Allen is determine that no one on his Earth will blank out his nephew , even if they do not remember what he once was . The publication concludes with Barry superintend the construction of the long - prophecized Flash Museum and looking down upon the two golden statues of two different men calledThe Flashflanking the ingress .
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